On MLK Day, two days before the Inauguration, let’s lift up the organizing that made the presidential transition possible.

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** On MLK Day, two days before the Inauguration, let’s lift up the organizing that made the presidential transition possible and has the power to transform the world.

Transfer of Power: The Deeper Shift We Need ([link removed][UNIQID])
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The peaceful transfer of power is what we’re all longing desperately for next week in this time of fear and tumult. The coup attempt that culminated in a white power riot must face swift, severe consequences and the Inauguration must proceed. But the change we need in 2021 is about far more than just changing leaders at the White House. There’s another transfer of power that has begun — from the elites to the communities, and this deeper power shift must be fully realized to achieve a just transformation of our society.

Sounds like a big task, and it is. If we want to know how, we ought to listen to Black women.

They know how because they’re doing it already. One of the amazing Black women who did more than any elected official to rescue our democracy from the brink, LaTosha Brown of Black Voters Matter, has power on her mind too. After the history-making Georgia win, she told The Root that “in these elections, the focus for me is not in seeing a win or an electoral win as the end-all be-all…I want people to start feeling a sense of power.”


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